Pygmy

Because I think you're cute....<<wink>>….

Sure !! Don't you realize that we should be held morally and financially liable for the things that our grandfathers and great grandfathers did 75 to 100 years ago ?? Not to mention what their grandfathers and great grandfathers did 200 years ago ?? If NOT you are certainly a consciencelous RACIST BASTARD !!

Pardon me while I puke....

Congratulations to a bright and lovely young lady...I'll extend those congrats to Mom and Dad, also, because they MAY have just had something to do with it....<<SMILE>>….A big JOB WELL DONE to you all....

" held without bail"....Means they were using level wind rather than spinning gear....

George Orwell nailed it, except it is 2020 instead of 1984...….

It appears that puddy tat has hunted squirrels before...….

As por moi, I am glad to see a warm, dry June for a change...Maybe a little tough on the gardens, but the turkey flock sure needs a good hatching season after the string of cool, damp ones we have had in recent years...

Tacks...Any walleyes coming in at Dunkirk ?...

The guy did not rob me...He never even demanded my money...He was just an asshole who wanted to cut up a white person and I was unfortunate to be the one he encountered...That was the moment that I decided two things....I would never be without the means to defend myself if I could help it, and I would never go back to new York City if I could help....I've pretty much stuck to it, too... That was in 1971, and the only time I have been back to the city was on business in 1977..Also, I'm leaving for Walmart in a few minutes and I WILL be armed...

Thanks for clearing that up, Al...I was about to go shoot myself...

BULLSHIT !! Much of the racism in this day and age is BLACK towards white....I experienced that personally, when a a guy wanted to cut my throat simply because I was white....That was pretty bizarre experience for a country boy who had never so much as made a disparaging remark to ANY black person..Fortunately, a patrol car of Brooklyn's finest came down the street and probably saved my life... There are a few bad apples in any organization, but most police personnel are honest, hard working guys who are trying to do the right thing, They may even save your life sometime...

Some of those big bushy dry flies you bought should work well up there.... An old ( and long gone) fly fishing friend of mine who grew up fishing the freestone streams of north central PA once told me that he went up and fished some Adirondack streams... His quote was..." The flies they use up there would put a SET in your rod "....Of course, people who never fished split bamboo rods might not understand that remark....

Thank you very much, My Friend...Crap like this makes me glad that I am getting old and won't have to tolerate it much longer....

I like them that way too, but unfortunately, I'm the only one who likes them that way, unless my Phillipino daughter-in law happens to be around... Also, when doing numbers, the filet knife wins out...Today 3 of us filleted 65 slab sunfish/gills in 50 minutes, including clean up.. They filets also take up MUCH less room in the freezer...

Hehehehe...That IS funny, Larry, ...As if I'LL see any of the money !! It's still well worth it that the fields will be better cared for and I won't be waiting to get the haying done until I can do my food plot stuff...Also, it saves me time and MY money I'd spend maintaining ( mowing ) my clover plots..

I went up on the property this morning....The new guy had worked until 10:00 PM last night and had half the field down and ready to run the haybine...In all the years I have been involved with the property, it was the first time that I had ever seen prime, green hay lying on the ground ready to be baled..In the past it has always been brown , dried out and basically worthless before it was even cut...….BTW...He said he flushed a hen turkey and a bunch of poults and 4 fawns while he was cutting, and that was only about 10/12 acres...He's always on the alert for wildlife...I think I might like this guy...

BIZ ??….I thought it was John Travolta in " Grease"....

We talked to the former guy before we made the change...He was not upset at all, and told us that his customer for the hay is getting out of the dairy business, so he no longer had a market for it...He also has some health problems and has his hands full just taking care of his own place....

You beat me to it , Biz....Getting slow in my old age....

$100 an acre...?? I am envious ,Tony....You must be farming some of that muck or central NY flatland dirt..I couldn't imagine anyone paying that for this rock infested clay hill country... I doubt that even the best riverbottom land around here would go for that..... Thanks for the advice anyway...I admit I haven't done a lot of research, due to the fact that the land is in the mermaid's name and she was dealing with an old family friend, but I have heard a few quotes of similar local land, and most were under $20/acre...Tough to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear...

Since The Mermaid and I have been together, about 12 years, I have hunted deer mostly on her 107 acres, of which about 25 acres is hayfield... She has had an old friend and neighbor taking the hay from the field..She has not charged him for it, but he was supposed to do other maintenance and upkeep projects on the property to pay for the hay he took... Well the guy has promised a lot and done very little...His equipment is broken down most of the time, and several years I have been late getting my food plots done because he had not taken the hay off yet.... Today another local farmer asked to take the hay ..He promises to cut it twice a season AND pay $20 an acre for it, plus avoid disturbing my food plots while he does it... He has a reputation for getting in, getting the hay off and getting out, in like one day....With the former guy I was putting up with hay bales all over the fields until nearly gun season... We'll see, but if he does what he promises, it will be a HUGE improvement for my deer hunting....I can't remember how many times in the last ten years that I have had to delay or perhaps cancel my food plot plans because the former guy was broken down or dragging his feet.. I'm just tickled pink with the change, as long as this new guy does what he claims he will do....

I don't think so.. I never saw either one in the wild, but looking at the pictures on the net, I'd say box turtle, due mainly to the high carapace...Also, although there is considerable variation of coloration in different individuals, I have viewed several box turtles with coloration very similar to the one in Cynthia's picture....Box turtle...I'd bet a 12 pack on it....Hehehe...

DANG...!! After viewing different turtles on google, I think it is an Eastern box turtle....Never saw one...VERY cool !!

Do you have an ID on the last turtle, Cynthia ? I never saw one...Around here we have mostly snappers and painted turtles and a few softshells..I have also seen a couple of wood turtles...That one in your last picture is not any of those.. BTW...Nice pictures, Girlfriend !!